Origins of psychology

• introspection (wundt)


  first experimental attempt to study the mind by breaking up conscious awareness into basic structures
• Introspection (Wundt)

  • first experimental systematic attempt to study the mind
  • breaking up conscious awareness into basic structures
• Wundt


  first lab

  emergence of pyschology as a science
• Freud 1900


  pyschodynamic approach
• Watson and Skinner 1913

  behaviourist approach
• Rogers and Maslow 


  humanistic approach
• 1950


  cognitive approach
• Bandura 1960


  social learning theory
• 1980 


  biological approach
• 21st century 


  cognitive neuroscience
• Kuhn 


  psychology isnt a science as it doesnt have a paradigm
• paradigm 


  set of rules, assumptions and methods (all sciences must have)
• empiricism


  belief all knowledge is derived from sensory experience
• strengths

  • scientific
  • controlled
  • carefully standardised
• weaknesses


  introspection is subjective

  behaviourists (watson) reject introspection

  not falsifiable (doesnt meet poppers requirements)
• Popper


  theories that are non falsifiable aren't scientific